Gas-range.



W. N. GOLDHAMER.

GAS RANGE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27, 1910.

995,451 a Patented June 20, 1911.

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UNETE WILLIAM N. GOLDI-IAMER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

GAS-RANGE.

Application filed June 2'7, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM N. GOLD- HAMER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Gas-Ranges, of whichthe following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which- Figure l is afront elevational view of a gas range embodying my invention; Fig. 2 isa side elevational view of the same; Fig. 3 is a top plan view of thegas-supply-pipes, gas nozzles, and burners of the range, showing thearrangement thereof when the oven and cooking portion are in therelative positions as shown in Fig. 1, and also showing, in longitudinalsection, the pilot plates for the oven of the range and theinterchangeable cover-plate for the gas-nozzle-openings therein; Fig. lis a top plan view of the supporting-table; Fig. 5 is an elevationalview of a portion of one side of the oven, showing the pilot-plate andassociate gassupply-pipe and gas-nozzles as when in operative positionthereon; and Fig. 6 is an elevational view of a portion of the oppositeside of the oven, showing the other pilotplate and the interchangeablecover-plate in position over the gas-nozzle-openings therein.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in gas ranges.

Heretofore, gas ranges of the class to which my invention isparticularly applicable, that is to say, gas ranges provided with anoven and an open cooking surface or portion, have, so far as I am aware,been always so constructed that the oven and open cooking portion are infixed relation one to the other, the oven being, say, to the right ofthe open cooking portion and the pilot-plate, pilot-burner, andgas-nozzles for the oven being accordingly either arranged on the frontof the oven or on the righthand side thereof. The oven andcookingportion being so arranged in fixed relative positions on asupporting-table or other place of support, it has been impossible tochange the relative positions thereof without entirely reconstructingthe range. It

frequently happens, however, that, after a user has acquired a range ofthis class havmg the oven and cooking-portlon 1n certam Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented June 20, 1911.

Serial No. 569,146.

relative positions, the oven being, for instance, to the right of thecooking-portion, it is advantageous or necessary for such user, or hemay desire, without being compelled to go to the expense of acquiring arange so constructed, to have a range of this class having the oven andcooking-portion in different relative positions, the oven being on theother side or to the left of the cookingportion.

The object of my invention is, therefore, broadly to provide a gas rangeof the class stated in which the oven and cooking-portion are adapted tobe interchangeably arranged relative to each other on a supporting-tableor other place of support.

lNith this object in view, my invention consists in the novelconstruction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of mygas range, all as will hereinafter be described and afterward pointedout in the claims.

In the drawings, in which like reference numerals refer to like partsthroughout the several views, 1 indicates any suitable supporting-tablehaving a top plate or portion 2.

3 indicates what might be called the oven 1 of the range, which may beof any approved construction and which is, as is usual, preferablydivided into several compartments, such as the broiling or toastingcompartment 4, baking or roasting compartment 5, and warming compartment6. 7 indicates the open cooking portion or surface of the range,

which may also be of any approved construction and which may, ifdesired, be provided at its top with a separate warming compartment 8.Said oven 3 and cookingportion 7 are provided with suitablesupporting-legs 9 and 10, respectively. Table 1 is provided withsuitable corner-pieces or brackets 11 and center-pieces or brackets 12,which project slightly above the plane of top plate 2 of said table andagainst which brackets said supporting-legs 9 and 10 are adapted toremovably contact and fit,whereby said oven 3 and cooking-portion 7 areadapted to be removably held in proper position on said table. As thesaid cookingportion 7 is usually of a width somewhat greater than thewidth of oven 3, said center brackets 12 are preferably provided with aplurality of recesses, as at 13, to properly accommodate and receive thesupporting legs 9 and 10 on one side or the other of said oven 3 andcooking-portion 7 depending upon the relative position of each thereofon said table 1. The said cookingportion 7 is provided with suitableburners 16 and suitable gas-supply-pipes, such as the pipes 15, 15, and17 adapted, when connected to a source of gas-supply, to supply gas tosaid burners. These burners 16 and supplypipes may be of any approvedconstruction and are mounted and arranged on said cooking-portion 7 inany suitable manner, the pipe 15 being preferably arranged along thefront thereof, the pipes 15 communicating with said pipe 15 and leadingtherefrom to said burners, and the pipe 17 also communicating with saidpipe 15 and extending or leading rearwardly therefrom under saidcooking-portion, see particularly Figs. 1, 2, and 3. The said oven 3, onits right and left-hand sides, is provided preferably with a pluralityof gas-nozzle openings, as at 3*, see particularly Fig. 6; and 18 and 18indicate similar pilot-plates, which are each preferably of any suitablemetallic material and which are adapted to be secured, as by screws orother fastening devices 23 on opposite sides of said oven 3, each ofsaid plates being provided preferably with a plurality of openingsadapted to register with said openings 3 on the respective sides of saidoven. 20 indicates a section of gaspipe, which is preferably of a lengthslightly greater than the width of the said right or left-hand sides ofsaid oven 3, see particularly Fig. 5, and upon pipe 20 are suitablymounted preferably a plurality of gas-nozzles 19 controlled by suitablevalves 21. The oven 3 is, as usual, provided with preferably a pluralityof suitable burners 22 with which said gas-nozzles 19 are adapted tocooperate, said nozzles 19 being adapted when said pipe 20 is inoperative position, to eX- tend through said nozzle-openings 3 Presumingnow that the oven 3 and cookingportion 7 are to be mounted and arrangedupon said table 1 as shown in Fig. 1, it being desired to have the oven3 to the right of the cooking portion 7, and said pipe 20 withgas-nozzles 19 is to be arranged on the righthand side of oven 3. Oven 3and cookingportion 7 are accordingly so mounted upon said table 1, saidbrackets 11 and 12 being adapted, as stated, to hold said oven 3 andcooking-portion 7 in such relative positions. Pipe 20 is now placed inproper position on the right-hand side of oven 3 with said gas nozzles19 extending through said openings 3*" therein, said pipe 20 beingremovably held in such position by means of suitable brackets 23arranged on said pipe 20 and secured to said plate 18 by means of anysuitable fastening devices, such as the screws 23*. The

forward end of pipe 20 is now closed by a suitable cap 24, and the rearend of pipe 20 is now connected through preferably a suitableunion-joint 20 and elbow-joint 25 to a gas-pipe 26, which pipe 26 inturn communicates through one end of a suitable teejoint 26 with a shortsection of pipe 27 leading from and connected to said pipe 17, a gassupply pipe 14 leading from any suitable source of gas-supply beingsuitably connected to the other side of said tee-joint 26 As is obvious,the opposite ends of said pipe 15 may be closed by suitable caps 14 and15 Preferably the middle gas-nozzle 19 is now suitably connected to, orarranged to cooperate with, a suitable pilot-burner 28, and acover-plate 29 is removably secured on said pilot-plate 18 over saidopenings 3 on the opposite or left-hand side of said oven 3, when therange is now in condition to be used. Should it afterward be desired tochange the relative positions of said oven 3 and cooking-portion 7 onsaid table 1, pipe 14 is disconnected from said tee-joint 26,

'pipe 26 is disconnected from said pipe 20 by unscrewing saidunion-joint 20 said elbowjoint 25, union-joint 20 and cap 24 are removed from the said respective ends of said pipe 20 and their positionon said pipe reversed, middle gasnozzle 19 is disconnected from saidpilot-burner 28, said pipe 20 with said gas-nozzles 19 removed fromposition on said righthand side of oven 3, and said cover-plate 29removed from position on said left-hand side of oven 3. The relativepositions of said oven 3 and cooking-portion '7 on said table 1 may nowbe changed, the

oven 3 being placed to the left of said cook ing-portion 7, and pipe 20with nozzles 19 may now be arranged on said pilot-plate 18 on theleft-hand side of oven 3, said coverplate 29 arranged on saidpilot-plate 18 on the right-hand side of oven 3, middle nozzle 19 againarranged in cooperative relation on the left-hand side of oven 3 withsaid pilot-burner 28, and said tee-joint 26 turned on said pipe 27 orsaid pipe 26 again suitably arranged in proper position between saidelbow-joint 25 and said teejoint 26 union-joint 20 being, of course,screwed to make a tight oint between pipes 20 and 26. Pipe 14 is nowagain suitably connected to said tee-joint 26 when the range is again incondition to be used.

It will thus be seen that I provide a gas range of the class stated inwhich the positions of the oven and cooking-portion may be readily andeasily interchanged relative to each other, thus enabling a user, afteracquiring a gas range embodying my invention, to interchangeably alterthe relative positions of said oven and cooking-portion on saidsupporting-table as desired.

I am aware that minor changes in the construction, arrangement, andcombination of the several parts of my gas range may be made andsubstituted for those herein shown and described without departing fromthe nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. In a gas range of the class stated, the combination with asupporting-table, of a cooking-portion provided with burners andgas-supply-pipes therefor adapted to be removably connected with asource of gas supply, an oven provided with burners, and a pipe providedwith gas-nozzles arranged on said oven in cooperative relation with saidoven-burners and adapted to be removably connected with said source ofgas-supply, said cooking-portion and said oven being adapted to beinterchangeably arranged relative to each other on said supportingtable;substantially as described.

2. In a gas range of the class stated, the combination with asupporting-table, of a cooking-portion provided with burners andgas-supply-pipes therefor adapted to be removably connected with asource of gas supply, an oven provided with burners and in its side withgas-nozzle openings, a pilotplate arranged on said oven and havingopenings registering with said gas-nozzle openings, and a pipe providedwith gasnozzles arranged on said pilot-plate with said gas-nozzles incooperative relation with said oven-burners, said pipe being adapted tobe removably connected with said source of gas supply and saidcooking-portion and said oven being adapted to be interchangeablyarranged relative to each other on said supporting-table; substantiallyas described.

3. In a gas range of the class stated, the combination with asupporting-table, of a cooking-portion provided with burners andgas-supply-pipes therefor adapted to be removably connected with asource of gas supply, an oven provided with burners, saidcooking-portion and oven being adapted to be interchangeably arrangedrelative to each other on said supporting-table, and a pipe providedwith gas-nozzles adapted to be interchangeably arranged on either sideof said oven to cooperate with said oven-burners and to be removablyconnected to said source of gas supply when in either position;substantially as described.

4. In a gas range of the class stated, the combination with asupporting-table, of a cooking-portion provided with burners andgas-supply-pipes therefor adapted to be re movably connected with asource of gas supply, an oven provided with burners, saidcooking-portion and oven being adapted to be interchangeably arrangedrelative to each other on said supporting-table, a pilot-plate adaptedto be interchangeably arranged on either side of said oven, and a pipeprovided with gas-nozzles adapted to be interchangeably arranged on saidpilot-plate on either side of said oven to cooperate with saidovenburners, said pipe being adapted to be removably connected with saidsource of gas supply when in either position; substantially asdescribed.

5. In a gas range of the class stated, the combination with asupporting-table, of a cooking-portion provided with burners andgas-supplypipes therefor adapted to be removably connected with a sourceof gas sup-' ply, an oven provided with burners and with gas-nozzleopenings on opposite sides thereof, said cooking-portion and oven beingadapted to be interchangeably arranged relative to each other on saidsupportingtable, a pilot-plate provided with openings adapted to beinterchangeably arranged on either side of said oven with its saidopenings registering with said gasnozzle openings therein, a pipeprovided with gas-nozzles adapted to be interchangeably arranged on saidpilot plate on either side of said oven with its said gas-nozzles incoopera tive position relative to said oven-burners, said pipe beingadapted to be removably connected with said source of gas-supply when ineither position, and a cover-plate adapted to be interchangeablyarranged on one side or the other of said oven to close said gas-nozzleopenings therein; substantially as described.

6. In a gas range of the class stated, the combination with asupporting-table, of a cooking-portion provided with burners andgaSsupply-pipes therefor adapted to be removably connected with a sourceof gas supply, an oven provided with burners and a pilot plate onopposite sides thereof, said cooking-portion and oven being adapted tobe interchangeably arranged relative to each other on saidsupporting-table, and a pipe provided with gas-nozzles adapted to beinterchangeably arranged on one or the other of said pilot-plates tocooperate with said oven-burners, said last-named pipe being adapted tobe removably connected to said source of gas supply when in either ofits said positions; substantially as described.

'7. In a gas range of the class stated, the combination with asupporting-table, of a cooking-portion provided with burners andgas-supply-pipes therefor adapted to be removably connected with asource of gas supply, an oven provided with burners and a pilot-plate onopposite sides thereof, said cooking-portion and oven being adapted tobe interchangeably arranged relative to each other on saidsupporting-table, means on said table adapted to interchangeably holdsaid cooking-portion and oven in such interchangeable relative positionson said table, and a pipe provided with gas-nozzles adapted to beinterchangeably arranged on one or the other of said pilot-plates tocooperate with said oven-burners, said last-named pipe being adapted tobe removably connected to said source of gas supply when in either ofits said positions; substantially as described.

8. In a gas range of the class stated, the.

combination with a supporting-table, of a cooking-portion provided withburners and gas-supply-pipes therefor adapted to be reinovably connectedwith a source of gas sup ply, an oven provided with burners and on itsopposite sides with gas-nozzle openings, said cooking-portion and ovenbeing adapting-portion in such interchangeable relative to each other onsaid table, brackets adapted to interchangeably hold said oven andcooking-portion in such interchangeably relative positions on saidtable, pilot-plates provided with openings registering with saidgasnozzle openings arranged on opposite sides of said oven, acover-plate adapted to be interchangeably arranged on said pilot-platesto close said gas-nozzle openings in one side or the other of said oven,and a pipe provided with gasnozzles adapted to be interchangeablyarranged on one or the other of Copies of this patent may be obtainedfor five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.Washington, D. G.

